Friday, December 28, 2007
2 weeks old,
Little Cici did not waste a minute to get a bite of mom's food. This all started at 2 am this morning when I brought Leydi her nighttime meal, 3 of the puppies didn't even try to nurse but sniffed the air and went for the food bowl much to mine and Leydi's surprise. Tonight I found Cici again in mom's food bowl helping herself to a snack, interestingly she didn't want the food I put in front of her in a puppy sized bowl, so it almost seems like she is trying to mimic mom and trying the foods that mom has instead of food that is just put in front of her. Kind of makes sense as in the wild canine moms will regurgitate food for their puppies, so a puppy that stays close to mom as a food source has a better chance of survival.
look at this puppy, she is truly a little miss personality, I call her Cici, she was the first born and the smallest at birth, but she has caught up and is no longer the smallest
Little Cici did not waste a minute to get a bite of mom's food. This all started at 2 am this morning when I brought Leydi her nighttime meal, 3 of the puppies didn't even try to nurse but sniffed the air and went for the food bowl much to mine and Leydi's surprise. Tonight I found Cici again in mom's food bowl helping herself to a snack, interestingly she didn't want the food I put in front of her in a puppy sized bowl, so it almost seems like she is trying to mimic mom and trying the foods that mom has instead of food that is just put in front of her. Kind of makes sense as in the wild canine moms will regurgitate food for their puppies, so a puppy that stays close to mom as a food source has a better chance of survival.
look at this puppy, she is truly a little miss personality, I call her Cici, she was the first born and the smallest at birth, but she has caught up and is no longer the smallest
Yellow dot girl, or now named Dottie, always crawls behind mom's butt and sleeps there, funny how they come up with such an idea, she really does this several times a day
Grizzly on the left is a really content and laid back puppy so far, he eats and he sleeps, I rarely see him do much else, just a really laid back guy, blue boy on the right is a little more active but he too usually wanders off and finds himself a spot to get comfortable
pink girl with her tail up is inviting the others to play, the little blue boy on the bottom is already starting to wrestle and tonight he got all goofy with me and seemed to enjoy a little wrestling and mock biting with my hand, it's nice that they don't have any teeth yet
playtime
pink girl strutting around, tail up
checking each other out
puppies getting to know each other, they are really starting to interact now instead of just using each other as pillows.
Purple girl, now called Panda, on the left, then yellow collar girl, which doesn't have a name yet, maybe Samantha, and pink girl, no name yet, maybe Dolly, since she is such a little doll.
All ten in one picture
These two just helped themselves to mom's breakfast, Leydi wasn't sure what to do as the puppies were in her way when she was trying to eat, she just watched them lap at her food, is was such a cute sight. These are red collar girl which I now call Cici (little woman) and the other one is white collar girl which I am calling Bianca for now (means white).